Diablo III Patches

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that could occur when attempting to upgrade from the Diablo III Starter Edition

General

• We will soon begin limited testing on minor updates to Battle.net’s communication and login functionality. Patch 1.0.6 includes some of the data for this testing, but please note that the changes will not be visible to players or impact your play experience in any way. For more information, please visit the Diablo III community site.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that allowed players to bypass the one-second trade timer when exchanging items via the Trade window
• Fixed an issue that caused the same item to occasionally drop for players using Threatening Shout with the Grim Harvest rune

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash that could occur on a machine with eight or more core processors
• Fixed some additional service crashes
• Fixed a variety of truncated tooltips (applies only to Italian, Polish, and Russian clients)

Patch Features

New System: Monster Power
Similar to the "Players X" command in Diablo II, Monster Power is a system designed to give players more control over how challenging enemies are in each difficulty. With this system, players can choose to increase the health and damage of monsters according to different "power levels" and in return they’ll receive scaling bonuses to experience as well as boosts to Magic Find and Gold Find which will stack above the 300% cap. The option to increase Monster Power will be available to all players starting at level 1 in the Quest Selection window, and can be adjusted separately for Normal, Nightmare, Hell, and Inferno difficulties.

For more information on how to enable and use Monster Power, click here

New Event: Infernal Machine
The Infernal Machine is a device that will allow level 60 players to battle "uber" versions of some of Sanctuary’s most nefarious bosses. While the rewards for defeating these bosses will be great, some assembly is required. Only the most powerful Nephalem can unlock the secrets to building the Infernal Machine,  but once forged the device can be used to open portals to special encounters featuring not one, but two bosses which have been augmented from their original versions, both in terms of difficulty and appearance. Defeating each boss pair will provide players with extra items and gold, as well as a chance to find components for a new Legendary ring. 

For more information on the Infernal Machine event, click here

General

• Resplendent Chests will now operate similarly to Elite packs in Inferno difficulty:
  • When players open a Resplendent Chest, they will receive a reward based on how many Nephalem Valor stacks they have active at the time
  • Opening a Resplendent Chest will grant one stack of Nephalem Valor
• Major in-game events will now grant one stack of Nephalem Valor when completed by a level 60 character in Inferno difficulty
  • If completed in a multiplayer game, all eligible characters in the party will receive the buff regardless of whether they participated in the event or were close to the event's location
• Major in-game events in Inferno difficulty that involve a special chest or Unique monster will now also drop additional loot for every stack of Nephalem Valor a player has active at the time of the event’s completion
  • Several events have had Unique monsters added to them for this purpose
• Experience Shrines can now appear in Inferno difficulty
• Two new shrines have been added to all difficulty levels:
  • Empowered Shrine – Increased resource regeneration and reduced cooldowns
  • Fleeting Shrine – Increased movement speed and pickup radius
• Followers, pets, and summoned creatures will no longer attack enemies that are in an idle state unless the player is within 10 yards of the enemy (note: Hydra heads and Sentry turrets are not affected by this change)
• The Watch Tower spawn has been moved from the Northern Highlands to the Southern Highlands
• The reduction of snare effects against Elite monsters has been reduced (in the player’s favor):
  • Normal: 20% to 0%
  • Nightmare: 30% to 15%
  • Hell: 40% to 25%
  • Inferno: 40% to 25%
• Crowd control effects will now be affected by diminishing returns. To learn more about how diminishing returns will work in Diablo III (and why these changes are an overall buff to player CC), click here

Auction House

• Search parameters will now save when switching  between the gold and real-money auction house
• An option to display Auction House toasts including sales and expirations has been added to the Social options menu
• Players can now search for +Damage on off-hand items
• User Interface
  • An additional sortable column has been added which will allow players to sort returned results by one of their indicated Preferred Stats
  • To switch between Preferred Stats, right-click on the column and choose from the available drop-down menu
  • The Preferred Stat list is now sorted alphabetically
  • An "X"-out button has been added to allow players to quickly reset individual Preferred Stat filters
  • A "Search for Similar" option has been added for items in the Sell tab
  • Right-clicking on items in the tab and selecting “Search for Similar” will automatically populate the Search tab with that item’s stats as well as perform a search for all items currently up for auction that have similar stats
• Bug Fixes
  • When claiming stackable items from the auction house, the claimed items will always attempt to fill out partial stacks completely before moving to an open slot in the stash
  • The color-coding for the "Quality" drop-down menu for Pages & Recipes has been updated to match the color-coding for all other categories
  • Fixed a bug that was causing the minimum value for the Spirit Regen affix to not filter items correctly

Battle.net

• The "Friend of Friend" feature for finding and adding Real ID friends is now available for Diablo III
• A new item delivery system has been added that will allow Blizzard to send license-based items directly to players (for example, Collector's Edition rewards)
• Achievements
  • An Achievement button has been added to the in-game navigation tray
  • Players can now link Achievements in chat
• Banners
  • Players can now customize their banner in-game while in town
  • Each banner reward type now has sub-categories organized by the content they were rewarded from (Hardcore, Crafting, Challenges, etc.)
  • New unlocked banner rewards are now highlighted so they can be found more easily
• Chat
  • Players can now change font color (per channel) and size
  • Clicking on items linked in chat will now provide a comparison tooltip based on what you are currently wearing
  • Several additional improvements have been made to in-game chat to increase usability
• Multiplayer
  • Leaving a multiplayer game will no longer remove you from the party
    • This means that players can leave the game to browse the Auction House or switch characters without being removed from the group (picking a hardcore character or a character not eligible to go back into the game, however, will disable the "Resume Game" button)
    • To leave a party while in-game, right-click on your hero portrait and select "Leave Game & Party"
    • To leave a party while in the hero screen, right-click on your hero and select "Leave Party"

Bosses

• General
  • Bosses will now drop improved loot the first time they are killed in each difficulty
    • All characters have had their "first kill" status reset for all bosses in the game
• Azmodan
  • Bug Fixes
    • Azmodan should no longer be able to cast Flame Meteors or continue channeling his Laser attack while stunned

Classes

• General
  • Defensive bonuses provided by certain class skills have been reduced. To learn more about these changes and why they were made, click here
• Barbarian
  • Active Skills
    • Battle Rage
      • Duration increased from 30 seconds to 120 seconds
    • Hammer of the Ancients
      • Increased Critical Hit chance is now based on the amount of Fury the player has when Hammer of the Ancients is activated:
        • For every 5 Fury a player has, Hammer of the Ancients has a 1% increased Critical Hit chance
      • Skill Rune – Smash
        • The radius of Smash has been slightly increased to help resolve an issue that caused Hammer of the Ancients to occasionally miss targets immediately in front of the player
      • Skill Rune – The Devil's Anvil
        • Movement speed reduction increased from 60% to 80%
    • Leap
      • Skill Rune – Iron Impact
        • Now grants 100% bonus armor per enemy hit for 3 seconds
    • Overpower
      • Cooldown reduced from 15 seconds to 12 seconds
    • Rend
      • Rend should now more reliably hit enemies that are running away
      • Skill Rune – Mutilate
        • Mutilate has been redesigned to slow enemies by 60% for the duration of Rend
    • Sprint
      • Skill Rune – Run Like the Wind
        • Proc coefficient reduced from 0.2 to 0.08
    • Threatening Shout
      • Cooldown reduced from 15 seconds to 10 second
      • Skill Rune – Grim Harvest
        • Now also has a chance to drop a health globe
    • War Cry
      • Cooldown reduced from 30 seconds to 20 seconds
      • Fury generated reduced from 30 to 20
      • Skill Rune – Charge!
        • Fury generated reduced from 60 to 40
      • Skill Rune – Impunity
        • Bonus resistance reduced from 50% to 20%
    • Whirlwind
      • Fury cost from 16 to 10
      • Attack speed no longer influences the cost of Whirlwind. The end result is that the cost discrepancy between slow weapons and fast weapons has been greatly reduced.
      • Skill Rune – Blood Funnel
        • Healing increased from 1% to 2% of Maximum Life per Critical Hit
  • Passive Skills
    • Animosity
      • Bonus Fury regeneration increased from 10% to 20%
    • Inspiring Presence
      • Healing increased from 1% to 2% Maximum Life per second
    • Unforgiving
      • Fury regeneration has been quadrupled, increased to 2 Fury every 1 second (up from 1 Fury every 2 seconds)
• Demon Hunter
  • Active Skills
    • Bola Shot
      • Explosion radius increased from 7 yards to 14 yards
      • Skill Rune – Volatile Explosives
        • Explosion radius increased from 14 yards to 20 yards
    • Chakram
      • Chakram will now always fire a projectile, regardless of distance or if an enemy is targeted
    • Companion
      • Added a 30-second cooldown
      • Reduced each Companion's attack cooldown from 1.5/2 seconds to 1 second
      • Weapon damage increased from 30% to 38%, but they can no longer critically hit
      • Companion's damage now scales with attack speed
      • Skill Rune – Wolf Companion
        • Wolf Companion has been redesigned to be a more durable pet:
          • Now has comparable durability to one Zombie Dog
          • New attack: 120-degree Cleave with a 10-yard radius that hits for 94% weapon damage
      • Skill Rune – Spider Companion
        • Spider Companion has been redesigned to be a more durable pet:
          • Has slightly more durability than the Wolf Companion
          • New attack: 120-degree Cleave with a 10-yard radius that hits for 38% weapon damage and Slows every enemy it hits by 60% for 2 seconds
      • Skill Rune – Boar Companion
        • Boar Companion has been redesigned to be a more durable pet:
          • Has more durability than the Spider Companion
          • New attack: Single-target attack that hits for 38% weapon damage
          • Provides (155 @ 60) Life per second and a 15% bonus to all resistances for the Demon Hunter
    • Evasive Fire
      • Skill Rune – Shrapnel has been renamed "Hardened"
        • Hardened increases your Armor by 25% for 3 seconds and replaces the backflip
      • Skill Rune – Parting Gift
        • Weapon damage increased from 45% to 55%
        • Poison bomb delay reduced from 1.2 seconds to 0.6 seconds
    • Sentry
      • Cost changed from 10 Discipline to 30 Hatred
      • Increased from weapon damage from 55% to 175%
      • Players can now have two turrets active at once, but an 8-second cooldown has been added to compensate
      • Sentry can no longer critically hit
      • Skill Rune – Spitfire Turret
        • Weapon damage increased from 8% to 30%
      • Skill Rune – Vigilant Watcher
        • Vigilant Watcher has been redesigned and now reduces the cooldown of Sentry by 2 seconds instead of increasing the duration
      • Skill Rune – Chain of Torment
        • Weapon damage increased from 80% to 125%
    • Shadow Power
      • Base spell changed from 20% Life Steal for 3 seconds to 15% Life Steal for 5 seconds
      • Skill Rune – Night Bane
        • Changed from 4 Hatred per second for 3 seconds to 3 Hatred per second for 5 seconds
      • Skill Rune – Blood Moon
        • Changed from 30% Life Steal for 3 seconds to 25% Life Steal for 5 seconds
      • Skill Rune – Gloom
        • Changed from 65% damage reduction for 3 seconds to 35% damage reduction for 5 seconds
      • Skill Rune – Shadow Glide
        • Changed from 40% movement speed increase for 3 seconds to 30% movement speed increase for 5 seconds
    • Spike Trap
      • Skill Rune – Sticky Trap
        • Explosion radius increased from 8 yards to 16 yards
      • Skill Rune – Bandolier has been renamed "Echoing Blast"
        • Echoing Blast gives your Spike Traps three charges with a minimum delay of 1 second between each explosion, and deals damage as Poison
    • Strafe
      • Movement speed increased from 65% to 75%
      • Hatred cost reduced from 16 to 12
      • All rune variants now allow you to walk through enemies while active
      • Skill Rune – Equilibrium has been renamed "Emberstrafe"
        • Emberstrafe leaves behind fire trail that deals 65% weapon damage per second for 2 seconds
    • Vault
      • Can now be used while under the effect of roots, including Jailer (and will break the effect)
      • Skill Rune – Trail of Cinders
        • Reduced damage from 1500% to 300% weapon damage over 3 seconds
        • Trail can now stack
      • Skill Rune – Acrobatics
        • Cooldown reduced from 15 seconds to 10 seconds
  • Passive Skills
    • Custom Engineering
      • Adds the ability to have a third Sentry turret out a time
      • Now also increases the maximum number of Spike Traps you can have out to 6
    • Numbing Traps
      • Damage reduction reduced from 25% to 20%, but now also works with Grenades and Sentry
    • Perfectionist
      • Now also increases Life, Armor, and Resistances by 10%
    • Thrill of the Hunt
      • Thrill of the Hunt has been redesigned:
        • Every 7 seconds, your next Hatred spender roots all targets hit by it for 2 seconds.  Enemies can only be rooted once every 7 seconds.  (This does not affect Sentry.)
      • Now displays a buff icon when ready to use
  • Bug Fixes
    • Active Skills
      • Rapid Fire
        • Starting a channel at maximum range will no longer cause the channel to interrupt itself and attempt to close towards the mouse cursor
      • Fixed a bug that caused Companion attack and Multishot to sometimes fail to hit targets that were at a different elevation than the player
• Monk
  • Active Skills
    • Breath of Heaven
      • Skill Rune – Infused with Light
        • Bonus Spirit regeneration increased from 6 to 8 additional Spirit per hit for 5 seconds
    • Dashing Strike
      • The strike animation after dashing now scales with attack speed
    • Mantra of Evasion
      • Skill Rune – Wind Through the Reeds
        • Run speed bonus increased from 5% to 8%
  • Passive Skills
    • Beacon of Ytar
      • Cooldown reduction increased from 15% to 20%
    • Near Death Experience
      • Cooldown reduced from 90 seconds to 60 seconds
    • Pacifism
      • Now also works on Freeze and Immobilize effects (note: the tooltip will not say Freeze, because Freezes are classified as a Stun)
    • Resolve
      • Damage reduction reduced from 25% to 20%
    • Seize the Initiative
      • Conversion of Dexterity to Armor reduced from 100% to 50%
  • Bug Fixes
    • Active Skills
      • Mystic Ally
        • Skill Rune – Earth Ally
          • Earth Ally will now actively follow players
      • Dashing Strike
        • Players can no longer become stuck if they die to a damage-over-time spell while casting Dashing Strike
• Witch Doctor
  • Active Skills
    • Firebats
      • Reduced Mana cost by 20% (from 122 to 98 per period at level 60)
    • Haunt
      • Weapon damage increased from 575% over 12 seconds to 575% over 6 seconds
      • Skill Rune – Resentful Spirit
        • Weapon damage increased from 287% to 383% over 2 seconds
      • Spirit Barrage
        • Skill Rune – Well of Souls
        • Will now seek out targets up to 40 yards (up from 25 yards)
    • Wall of Zombies
      • Cooldown reduced from 25 seconds to 20 seconds
      • Skill Rune – Pile On
        • Changed from 745% weapon damage with a 25-second cooldown to 550% weapon damage with a 10-second cooldown and the radius has been slightly increased
  • Passive Skills
    • Gruesome Feast
      • Now shows a buff icon when you have active stacks
    • Fetish Sycophants
      • Proc chance increased from 3% to 5%
    • Jungle Fortitude
      • Damage reduction reduced from 20% to 15%
  • Bug Fixes
    • Active Skills
      • Haunt
        • Damage now benefits from Intelligence and other skill bonuses
• Wizard
  • Active Skills
    • Archon: Slow Time
      • Slow increased from 30% to 60%
    • Blizzard
      • Arcane Power cost reduced from 45 to 40 (Snowbound cost will remain the same at 20 Arcane Power)
    • Disintegrate
      • Arcane Power cost reduced from 20 to 18 per period
      • Weapon damage increased from 155% to 170%
      • Skill Rune – Chaos Nexus
        • Weapon damage increased from 40% to 44%
      • Skill Rune – Entropy
        • Weapon damage increased from 178% to 196%
      • Skill Rune – Intensify
        • Weapon damage increased from 202% to 221%
    • Energy Armor
      • Armor bonus reduced from 65% to 35%
      • Skill Rune – Prismatic Armor
        • Resistance bonus reduced from 40% to 25%
    • Energy Twister
      • Skill Rune - Storm Chaser
        • Proc coefficient reduced from 0.5 to 0.125
    • Familiar
      • Skill Rune – Ancient Guardian
        • Health threshold increased from 35% to 50%
      • Skill Rune – Dartling has been renamed "Vigoron"
        • Vigoron regenerates Life every second for the wizard
    • Ice Armor
      • Now reduces damage from melee attacks by 12%
      • Skill Rune – Crystallize
        • Armor bonus per stack reduced from 30% to 20%
    • Magic Missile
      • Weapon damage increased from 110% to 125%
      • Skill Rune – Charged Blast
        • Weapon damage increased from 143% to 162%
      • Skill Rune – Split
        • Weapon damage increased from 50% to 56%
        • Angle of damage reduced from 30 degrees to 20 degrees
      • Skill Rune – Seeker
        • Weapon damage increased from 121% to 138%
      • Skill Rune – Penetrating Blast
        • Pierce chance increased from 70% to 100%
    • Meteor
      • Delay between cast and impact reduced from 2 seconds to 1.25 seconds
      • Arcane Power cost reduced from 60 to 50
      • Proc coefficient (base skill + runes not listed) reduced from 0.25 to 0.125
      • Skill Rune – Star Pact
        • Proc coefficient reduced from 0.25 to 0.10625
      • Skill Rune – Meteor Shower
        • Proc coefficient reduced from 0.1 to 0.05
      • Skill Rune – Liquefy
        • Proc coefficient reduced from 0.125 to 0.10625
    • Ray of Frost
      • Movement speed reduction increased from 30% to 60%
      • Duration of slow increased from 3 seconds to 4 seconds
      • Arcane Power cost reduced from 20 to 16 per period
      • Skill Rune – Numb
        • Movement speed reduction increased from 60% to 80%
      • Skill Rune – Cold Blood
        • Arcane Power cost reduced from 12 to 10 per period
      • Skill Rune – Sleet Storm
        • Weapon damage increased from 215% to 280%
        • Proc scalar reduced from 0.25 to 0.1875
      • Skill Rune – Black Ice
        • Weapon damage increased from 193% to 387% over 3 seconds
    • Slow Time
      • Cooldown reduced from 20 seconds to 15 seconds
      • Movement speed reduction increased from 30% to 60%
      • Skill Rune – Time Shell
        • No longer reduces the size of Slow Time
      • Skill Rune – Perpetuity
        • Now reduces cooldown to 12 seconds (from 16 seconds)
    • Spectral Blade
      • Weapon damage increased from 135% to 165%Angle of damage increased from 60 degrees to 90 degrees
      • Range increased from 10 yards to 15 yards (range of Thrown Blades will remain at 20 yards)
      • Proc coefficient reduced from 0.222 to 0.14
      • Skill Rune – Deep Cuts
        • Weapon damage from Bleed increased from 35% to 45% over 3 seconds
      • Skill Rune – Healing Blades
        • Removed Critical Hit requirement
        • Heal amount reduced from 8% to 5%
      • Skill Rune – Thrown Blades
        • Proc coefficient reduced from 0.111 to 0.08
    • Storm Armor
      • Ability has been redesigned to periodically deal 100% weapon damage as Lightning to nearby enemies
      • Now triggers much more frequently
      • Skill Rune – Reactive Armor
        • Redesigned to deal 70% weapon damage as Lightning to ranged and melee attackers
      • Skill Rune – Strike Back has been renamed "Thunder Storm"
        • Thunder Storm increases your periodic damage to 130% weapon damage
      • All other runes remain unchanged
    • Teleport
      • Now breaks roots
      • Skill Rune – Reversal
        • Now ignores line of sight when returning to the casting location
    • Wave of Force
      • Cooldown reduced from 15 seconds to 12 seconds
      • Skill Rune – Force Affinity
        • Cooldown from 12 seconds to 9 seconds
  • Passive Skills
    • Unstable Anomaly
      • Increased health threshold from 20% to 30%
      • Now heals the player to 45% of Maximum Life and slow targets that are knocked back by 60% for 3 seconds
  • Bug Fixes
    • Active Skills
      • Archon
        • It is no longer possible to bypass the cooldown of Archon by combining Arcane Orb, Diamond Skin, and Archon
        • Archon: Teleport
          • Now properly breaks roots when cast
      • Hydra
        • All runes now properly benefit from Arcane Dynamo's five-stack damage buff
        • Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause the heads of the Hydra to become separated from the base when cast near a wall
      • Magic Weapon
        • Skill Rune – Blood Magic
          • Blood Magic should now work with damage over time spells (such as Archon: Disintegrate, Ray of Frost, etc)
    • Passive Skills
      • Illusionist
        • Illusionist should now reset the cooldown of Archon: Teleport when it procs

Crafting

• Crafting materials can now stack to 500
• Jeweler Designs that drop in the world will now show up as Rare quality (yellow) to make them more visible on the ground
• Crafting reagents can now be converted up to the next highest level at the Blacksmith at a ratio of 10:1
• Tomes of Training can be converted up to the next highest level at the Blacksmith and Jeweler at a ratio of 10:1
• Salvage now uses the required equip-level of the item instead of the base item level to determine what components the item will be salvaged into
  • Example: If an item is an iLevel 60 and has a reduced level requirement of 52, the item will salvage into Hell crafting materials instead of Inferno crafting materials
  • This is being done to accommodate the change of item affixes rolling at the monster's level rather than the item's level (detailed further in the Items section below)
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed a bug where crafted items were not displaying the correct Required Level to equip them

Followers

• Templar
  • Skills
    • Heal
      • Now heals both the Templar and the player when cast
      • Can now be cast when the player is below 75% health (up from 50%)
    • Inspire
      • Mana regeneration bonus increased from 2 to 4 Mana per second
    • Intervene
      • Cooldown reduced from 60 seconds to 30 seconds
      • Affected radius increased from 6 yards to 10 yards
      • Removed the health threshold for when Intervene can be cast:
        • Spell will now cast whenever the player is hit and off cooldown, regardless of the player's currently health %
    •  Intimidate
      • Now also reduces the movement speed of enemies that the Templar hits by 60% for 3 seconds
• Scoundrel
  • Basic ranged attack weapon damage increased from 25% to 40%
  • Skills
    • Hysteria
      • Cooldown reduced from 6 seconds to 5 seconds
    • Poison Bolts
      • Weapon damage of initial hit increased from 40% to 100%
      • Poison now deals 40% weapon damage over 2 seconds (instead of over 3 seconds)
• Enchantress
  • Skills
    • Disorient
      • Affected radius increased from 4 yards to 6 yards
      • Cooldown reduced from 45 seconds to 25 seconds
    • Mass Control
      • Cooldown reduced from 60 seconds to 30 seconds
    • Powered Armor
      • Armor bonus reduced from 15% to 5%
    • Reflect Missiles
      • Reflect Missiles has been replaced with Missile Ward:
        • Missile Ward reduces incoming damage from ranged attacks by 6%
• Bug Fixes
  • Magic Find and Gold Find values inherited from Followers should now respect the 300% cap
  • Followers will no longer run in place or run slowly when players perform abilities that augment their movement (ex: Leap, Teleport, Vault, etc.)
  • Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause followers or quest NPCs to attack idle creatures (such as treasure goblins) if they were the closest target

Items

• Affixes on items will now roll their level based on the level of the monster killed rather than the item's level (this applies to all items including random affixes on Legendary and set items)
• The location of Legendary items will now be marked by a column of light as well as a ping on the mini-map the first time they drop, and a new sound has been addedClass-specific items will now drop more often
• The chance for Legendary and set items to drop has been doubled
• Items below iLevel 58 no longer drop in Inferno difficulty
• Square-quality gems no longer drop in Inferno difficulty
• The cast time for identifying Rare items has been reduced to 1 second
• The cast time for identifying Legendary items has been increased to 4 seconds
• Lore books will now appear light blue instead of green when dropped on the ground
• Monk class Skill bonuses can now roll on shields
• "Extra Health From Globes" now also benefits health potions
• Bug Fixes
  • The order in which you equip gear with a Legendary affix to add bonus Elemental Damage will no longer cause your damage output to change
  • Mara's Kaleidoscope can now correctly roll 3 random affixes in addition to its 3 fixed affixes
  • Fixed a bug with Nagelring and Unity legendary rings which caused them to not drop
  • Fixed a bug where Mempo of Twilight could not roll 170-200 of a primary stat
  • Fixed a bug where several +X damage item affixes were not correctly applying to skills
    • These affixes include "Cold skills deal X% more damage", "Increase damage against elites by X%", and "+X% damage to beasts"
    • NOTE: This bug fix will apply to all existing items and will not require new items to drop.

Monsters

• Additional health per monster in multiplayer games has been reduced from 75% to 70%
• Damage and health of monsters levels 50-63 have been reduced to coincide with the addition of Monster Power
• Elite modifiers have been changed slightly at higher levels:
  • The minimum stun duration required for most Elites is now 0.65 seconds (up from 0.5 seconds); stuns less than 0.65 seconds will have no effect
  • The minimum stun duration required for Rares and bosses is now 0.85 seconds (up from 0.5 seconds); stuns less than 0.85 seconds will have no effect
• Sand Shark AI has been improved:
  • Sand Sharks can now use an “Under Sand Attack” while burrowed, which causes the Sand Shark to charge to the player and do a 10-yard radius earthquake-like attack for low damage
  • Sand Sharks can now walk toward you while above ground, which gives players more time to DPS them
• Skeleton Fire Mage fire pools, Wood Wraith spore clouds, and Oppressor fire breath attacks should now do reduced damages to pets and followers
• Two-handed skeleton executioners have had their escape radius reduced
• The "coolup" has been increased on the Fallen Lunatic's suicide power from 1-3 seconds to 2-5 seconds, giving players a more predictable time to kill them (or run away) before they explode
• Lacunis now have a cooldown on their combo attack
• Treasure Goblins will now play a sound whenever they become aware of a player
• Bug Fixes
  • Damage caused by the Reflects Damage affix can no longer be dodged
  • Fire Chains monsters should no longer link with burrowed monsters (if a monster burrows while linked with Fire Chains, the link will be removed)
  • The explosion effect of a dying Molten monster and the damage done by the effect should now always occur at the same time
  • Monsters with the Desecrator affix will no longer occasionally cast desecrator pools on players more than 50 yards away
  • Damage done by the Arcane Sentry beam attack should now properly sync with the beam graphic
  • Heralds of Pestilence will now abort their ranged attack if the player uses a power to make themselves un-targetable while the attack is casting (or "winding up")
  • Rare Heralds of Pestilence will now spawn minions
  • Arcane Enchanters will now properly reduced their damage based on a players Damage Reduction Against Elites modifier
  • Flying Moloks can no longer go invisible and become untargetable
  • The following monster types can now spawn as Rares and Champions, allowing certain achievements to be completed:
    • Mallet Lord
    • Skeletal Sentry
    • Skeletal Raider
    • Skeletal Marauder
    • Armaddon
    • Armored Destroyer
    • Subjugator
    • Dust Imp

User Interface

• You can now change the icon for each tab in the shared stash
  • The intent of this feature is to allow players the option to visually customize their stash tabs to better reflect its contents
• Bug Fixes
  • Switching from a weapon to a shield in your off-hand will no longer cause your Damage stat to display less damage than your character actually deals in combat

Bug Fixes

• Shrines will now buff all players that are within the shrine’s radius or in the same level area
• Nephalem Valor stacks are now restored whenever a player rejoins the last multiplayer game he/she was disconnected from
• The damage stat in the Hero page should now display the appropriate values when switching main and off-hand weapons with a shield
• Fixed a bug where buffs on other players weren’t displaying correctly in the party UI
• Fixed a bug that was causing players to not be able to rejoin a multiplayer game if they switched to a character that was saved to a difficulty level not yet unlocked by the other party members
• Fixed a crash that could sometimes occur when mousing over the tooltip for crafting materials
• Removed the initial tick of damage from fire trenches in Keep Depths and slightly reduced the radius
• Installing and patching the PTR will no longer overwrite and reset the Diablo III retail preferences files (D3Prefs.txt); it is now saved as a separate file (D3PrefsPTR.txt)
• Acts:
  • Act I
    • Act I - Realm of Chaos: The cut-scene no longer hangs on a black screen when you begin the Realm of Chaos encounter
    • Act I - Defiled Crypt: Loot can no longer fall inside the chest upon completion of the "Matriarch's Bones" event
    • Act I - The Festering Woods: It is no longer possible for loot to fall inside the broken pillar bases.
  • Act III
    • Act III - Stonefort: It is no longer possible for the first soldier during the event "Protect and Serve: Protect the soldiers raising the catapult" to be killed by monsters before reaching the winch
    • Act III - Rakkis Crossing: Captain Haile can no longer be killed during "Blaze of Glory: Talk to Captain Haile"
  • Act IV
    • Act IV - The Pinnacle of Heaven: Tyrael is now present in the cutscene during "Prime Evil: Climb to the Pinnacle of Heaven in the Silver Spire"

General

• New System added: Paragon Levels
  • After a player reaches level 60, killing monsters and completing combat challenge streaks (Killing Blow, Massacre, etc) will begin to award experience towards Paragon levels
  • There are 100 total Paragon levels to be earned
  • Each Paragon level will reward you with:
    • Core stats such as Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, and Vitality in amounts similar to what you'd gain from a normal level
    • 3% Magic Find and 3% Gold Find
  • In addition, a distinctive border will surround your character portrait in the in-game party frame to denote your Paragon progression, with a new frame earned after every ten levels. Your Paragon level will also be visible to other players wherever your normal level is shown.
• Pets with passive life regeneration (most notably Followers, Zombie Dogs, and Gargantuans) have had their life regeneration greatly increased from levels 30-60
• Nephalem Valor now grants +15% Bonus Experience per stack, as well as +15% to Magic Find and Gold Find
• Magic Find will now cap at 300% (Nephalem Valor bonuses will still stack beyond this cap)
• Magic Find is no longer averaged among all players in a multiplayer game
• Players can now disable or enable music in the Sound Options
• Additional Sound Options including Sound Output and Speaker Setup has been added
• A new tutorial about "Elective Mode" will now appear when a player enters Nightmare, Hell, or Inferno difficulty for the first time

Achievements

• Bug Fixes
  • The achievement "Espionage" can now be completed as the Battlefield Reports lore can now drop in Act III
  • The achievement "A Unique Collection" can now be completed (see the Bug Fixes in the Monsters section for more information)
  • The "Kill Diablo" criteria for the achievement "Death From Afar” has been removed

Auction House

• Auctions can now be cancelled at any point so long as they do not have any active bids
• Number of "Preferred Stats" allowed per search increased from 3 to 6
• Number of digits allowed in the "Min Value" field for equipment searches increased from 3 to 5
• "Minimum Damage" has been replaced with "Average Damage" as a searchable stat
  • Bonus damage is calculated as the Average Damage: (Min Damage + Max Damage)/2
  • For example, searching for a Bonus Damage of 12 will find an item with 10-14 damage, 12 minimum damage, or 24 maximum damage.
• Stat increases which come from slotted gems are no longer taken into account when searching for equipment
• Armor, DPS, Buyout, and Time Left columns are now sortable in the Search tab
• The maximum stack size of gold per listing has been increased from 100,000 to 1,000,000
• The following message has been added to the Item Purchase screen: "Item properties and values may change over time due to game balancing"
• Description text has been added or improved for several error messages
• UI Improvements
  • Tooltips have been added for items in the Completed tab
  • Tooltips have been added for commodities
  • Item Compare tooltips have been added to the Recommended Items page
  • The listing price of unsold and cancelled auctions will now display in the Completed tab
  • The Auctions tab and Completed tab will now refresh when a player’s item has been purchased
• Bug Fixes
  • Auction house search filters are now no longer case sensitive
  • Players can now search for stats on Legendary items
  • "Attack Speed" is now a searchable affix for quivers
  • "Chance to Blind on Hit" is now a searchable affix for amulets
  • Items with the "Level Requirement Reduced" affix will now properly appear in search results when specifying the level range
  • Searches will now properly filter results according to the set Minimum and Maximum values for "Life per Spirit Spent"
  • Witch doctor's Corpse Spider bonus is now listed when searching for mojos
  • The Recommended Items page will now display quivers for demon hunters even if the player has a two-handed ranged weapon equipped

Battle.net

• The "Report Spam" option is now available in the main menu when right-clicking on a player’s name (rather than being hidden in the "Report" sub-menu)
• Reporting another player for chat spam using "Report Spam" option will now also temporarily mute that player for the duration of your login session
• Reporting another player for friend request spam using the "Report Spam" option in the Friends List will now also automatically decline that player’s friend request
• The Quick Join window has been improved
• More information about Global Play (and its restrictions) has been added to the Account tab
• The game will now display both on the login and character select screen which region a player is currently logging into
• Chat
  • Clicking on achievement toasts will now provide more information about the achievement
  • The Public Chat menu will now indicate which channels a player has already joined
  • /who and /invite commands can now be used in all channels
  • "DND" and "AFK" tags have been added to the "You are now Busy" and "You are now Away" status messages (respectively)
  • Shift-left-clicking on a player’s name will now display the following information: [Name]: [Level][Mode][Class] – [Act (difficulty)] (i.e. "[Pixie]: Level 45 Hardcore Barbarian – Act I (Nightmare)")
  • Chat Channel and Party message formatting has been updated
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed a bug that caused items from the Normal gold auction house to display in the Hardcore gold auction house when a player switched between characters during periods of high latency
  • The chat commands /p and /party now work correctly when joining Public Games
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when clicking on a link to a fake item that contained more sockets than is possible

Bosses

• Boss rooms have been standardized so that, after the boss fight is complete, players will always be able to do the following:
  • Use Town Portal to leave the room
  • Re-enter the room again via Town Portal as well as the room’s entrance portal
• Maghda
  • Abilities
    • Insect Swarm
      • Projectiles can now be slowed
• Ghom
  • Abilities
    • Breath Attack
      • Pets and Followers should now only take 10% damage from the breath attack
    • Gas Cloud
      • The rate at which Ghom spawns Gas Clouds has been reduced by approximately 20%
      • The cooldown on Ghom's Gas Cloud attack has been increased from 6-10 seconds to 10-13 seconds
      • Pets and Followers should now only take 5% damage from Gas Clouds
  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed an issue where certain movement skills were granting immunity to Ghom’s gas clouds if cast while inside the cloud (and if the player never left the cloud’s area of effect)
• Cydaea
  • Bug Fixes
    • Players can no longer bypass the chains that appear during the “Heart of Sin: Kill the Daughters” event
• Azmodan
  • Abilities
    • Fire Ball
      • Projectiles can now be slowed
• Izual
  • Bug Fixes
    • Skipping Izual’s cut-scene should no longer cause players to become trapped behind his ice barrier
    • Fixed a bug where Izual’s Charge attack would not do any damage
    • Fixed a bug where Izual’s Charge attack could damage players twice
    • Fixed a bug where Izual could become immune to damage when at 30% health under rare circumstances
• Rakanoth
  • Bug Fixes
    • Rakanoth is now properly immune to crowd control effects when enraged in Inferno difficulty
• Diablo
  • Bug Fixes
    • Diablo’s Bone Cage debuff will now be properly removed from the player during a phase transition if the cut-scene is skipped
    • Fixed an issue where triggering a phase transition while grasped by Diablo could cause both the player and Diablo to become temporarily invisible
    • Fixed an issue that caused Diablo to not summon Shadow Clones of the player if Seven-Sided Strike was cast at the appropriate time

Classes

• Barbarian
  • Active Skills
    • Ancient Spear
      • Now also roots the target in place for 1.5. seconds
      • Will now default to Basic Attack if on cooldown
    • Bash
      • Fury generated increased from 6 to 8
      • Weapon damage increased from 150% to 165%
      • Skill Rune - Onslaught
        • Weapon damage increased from 22% to 25% per reverberation
      • Skill Rune - Punish
        • Bonus damage per stack increased from 6% to 8%
      • Skill Rune - Instigation
        • Bonus Fury generated reduced from 6 to 4
    • Cleave
      • Weapon damage increased from 120% to 140%
      • Skill Rune - Reaping Swing
        • Proc coefficient increased from 0.667 to 0.8
      • Skill Rune - Broad Sweep
        • Weapon damage increased from 156% to 175%
        • Proc coefficient increased from 0.5 to 0.8
      • Skill Rune - Gathering Storm
        • Proc coefficient increased from 0.5 to 0.8
    • Hammer of the Ancients
      • Weapon damage increased from 200% to 325%
      • Skill Rune - Rolling Thunder
        • Weapon damage increased from 155% to 275%
      • Skill Rune - Smash
        • Weapon damage increased from 270% to 406%
      • Skill Rune - The Devil’s Anvil
        • Proc coefficient reduced from 1 to 0.08
    • Leap
      • Can now be used while immobilized by crowd control effects (such as Jailer)
        • Note: Leap will not break CC effects, but that it can still be used while under the effect
    • Overpower
      • Skill Rune - Crushing Advance
        • Can no longer trigger On Hit procs
        • Amount of damage reflected increased from 30% to 35%
    • Rend
      • Weapon damage increased from 210% over 3 seconds to 700% over 5 seconds
      • Skill Rune - Lacerate
        • Weapon damage increased from 271% over 3 seconds to 903% over 5 seconds
      • Skill Rune - Bloodbath
        • Weapon damage increased from 60% over 3 seconds to 100% over 5 seconds
    • Seismic Slam
      • Weapon damage increased from 155% to 240%
      • Skill Rune - Shattered Ground
        • Weapon damage increased from 202% to 288%
      • Skill Rune - Cracking Rift
        • Weapon damage increased from 255% to 340%
    • Weapon Throw
      • Weapon damage increased from 100% to 130%
      • Will now default to Basic Attack if the player runs out of Fury
      • Skill Rune - Mighty Throw
        • Weapon damage increased 130% to 169%
    • Whirlwind
      • Weapon damage increased from 110% to 145%
      • Skill Rune - Volcanic Eruption
        • Weapon damage increased from 143% to 188%
• Demon Hunter
  • Active Skills
    • Bola Shot
      • Weapon damage to the primary target increased from 130% to 160%
      • Skill Rune - Thunder Ball
        • Weapon damage increased from 130% to 160%
      • Skill Rune - Acid Strike
        • Weapon damage of each bola increased from 130% to 160%
      • Skill Rune - Imminent Doom
        • Weapon damage to the primary target increased from 182% to 216%
    • Caltrops
      • Skill Rune - Jagged Spikes
        • Can no longer trigger procs
    • Chakram
      • Weapon damage increased from 150% to 170%
      • Skill Rune - Twin Chakrams
        • Weapon damage increased from 100% to 114%
      • Skill Rune - Serpentine
        • Weapon damage increased from 203% to 230%
      • Skill Rune - Razor Disk
        • Weapon damage increased from 165% to 187%
      • Skill Rune - Boomerang
        • Weapon damage increased from 188% to 230%
      • Skill Rune - Shuriken Cloud
        • Weapon damage increased from 30% to 34%
        • Proc coefficient reduced from 0.333 to 0.125
    • Cluster Arrow
      • Initial bomb weapon damage increased from 200% to 225%
      • Skill Rune - Maelstrom
        • Weapon damage increased from 145% to 165%
      • Skill Rune - Loaded for Bear
        • Weapon damage increased from 290% to 304%
    • Entangling Shot
      • Weapon damage of base skill and all rune variants increased from 75% to 90%
      • Skill Rune - Shock Collar
        • Now deals an additional 70% weapon damage over 2 seconds
        • Weapon damage % is no longer based on attack speed
    • Evasive Fire
      • Weapon damage increased from 125% to 130%
      • Skill Rune - Covering Fire
        • Weapon damage increased from 125% to 130% weapon
    • Grenades
      • Skill Rune - Gas Grenades
        • Proc coefficient reduced from 0.5 to 0.165
    • Impale
      • Weapon damage increased from 250% to 265%
      • Skill Rune - Chemical Burn
        • Weapon damage increased from 125% to 220%
    • Multishot
      • Hatred cost lowered from 40 to 30
      • Skill Rune - Fire at Will
        • Now reduces Hatred cost to 15
    • Rain of Vengeance
      • Changed from 75% weapon damage for 5 seconds to 715% weapon damage over 5 seconds
      • Skill Rune - Dark Cloud
        • Changed from 34% weapon damage for 12 seconds to 792% weapon damage over 12 seconds
        • Can now find targets in a larger radius around the player
      • Skill Rune - Beastly Bombs
        • Weapon damage increased from 125% to 245% per bomb
      • Skill Rune - Stampede
        • Weapon damage increased from 75% to 120% per strike
      • Skill Rune - Anathema
        • Changed from 115% weapon damage for 10 seconds to 3300% weapon damage over 15 seconds
      • Skill Rune - Flying Strike
        • Weapon damage increased from 60% to 100%
    • Rapid Fire
      • Weapon damage increased from 228% to 276%
      • Skill Rune - Bombardment
        • Weapon damage increased from 276% to 345%
    • Sentry
      • Turret weapon damage increased from 20% to 55%
      • Skill Rune - Chain of Torment
        • Maximum tether length increased to 45 yards
        • Weapon damage increased from 48% to 80%
    • Smoke Screen
      • Skill Rune - Choking Gas
        • Now does 700% weapon damage over 5 seconds
        • Weapon damage % is no longer based on attack speed
    • Strafe
      • Weapon damage increased from 120% to 156%
      • Skill Rune - Demolition
        • Weapon damage increased from 144% to 187%
    • Vault
      • Skill Rune - Action Shot
        • Will now always shoot 4 arrows
      • Skill Rune - Trail of Cinders
        • Now leaves a trail of fire behind the player dealing 1500% weapon damage over 3 seconds
  • Passive Skills
    • Brooding
      • No longer requires player to not be damaged for 3 seconds to regenerate 1% of maximum Life per second
  • Bug Fixes
    • Rain of Vengeance
      • Skill Rune - Anathema
        • Shadow Beast should now drop the appropriate amount of grenades
• Monk
  • Active Skills
    • Crippling Wave
      • Spirit generated increased from 6 to 7
    • Cyclone Strike
      • Proc coefficient increased from 0 to 0.125
    • Dashing Strike
      • Weapon damage increased from 100% to 160%
    • Exploding Palm
      • Changed from 220% weapon damage over 3 seconds to 745% weapon damage over 9 seconds
      • Skill Rune - Impending Doom
        • Duration increased from 6 seconds to 15 seconds.
    • Lashing Tail Kick
      • Weapon damage increased from 200% to 235% (this also benefits Sweeping Armada, Scorpion Sting, and Hand of Ytar)
      • Skill Rune - Vulture Claw Kick
        • Weapon damage increased from 220% to 258%
      • Skill Rune - Spinning Flame Kick
        • Weapon damage increased 240% to 294%
    • Mystic Ally
      • Can no longer trigger procs
    • Seven-Sided Strike
      • Weapon damage increased from 777% to 1777% over 7 hits
      • Skill Rune - Sudden Assault
        • Weapon damage increased from 1007%to 2309% over 7 hits
      • Skill Rune - Several-Sided Strike
        • The 2 extra hits now also increase the total duration of the spell (which increases the amount of time that you are invulnerable)
      • Skill Rune - Fulminating Onslaught
        • Weapon damage of each explosion increased from 111% to 254%
    • Sweeping Wind
      • Skill Rune - Master of Wind
        • Increased the duration of the vortex from 10 to 20 seconds
    • Tempest Rush
      • Weapon damage increased from 50% to 85%
    • Wave of Light
      • Weapon damage of initial strike increased from 215% to 390%
      • Skill Rune - Wall of Light
        • Weapon damage bonus to initial strike increased from 312% to 566%
      • Skill Rune - Explosive Light
        • Weapon damage increased from 285% to 430%
      • Skill Rune - Pillar of the Ancients
        • Weapon damage on both the initial strike and delayed explosion increased from 210%  to 280%
    • Way of the Hundred Fists
      • Spirit generated increased from 6 to 8
      • Skill Rune - Fists of Fury
        • Now does 100% weapon damage over 5 seconds
  • Passive Skills
    • Exalted Soul
      • Now also generates 1 Spirit per second
    • Fleet Footed
      • Movement speed bonus no longer counts toward the 25% movement speed increase cap
    • The Guardian's Path
      • Two-handed weapon Spirit generation bonus increased from 25% to 35%
  • Bug Fixes
    • Exploding Palm
      • Fixed a bug that allowed players to gain multiple rare item drops from a single Champion or Rare pack by killing all remaining monsters in the pack at the same time using Exploding Palm
    • Mystic Ally
      • All Mystic Ally variants are now summoned with full health
    • Wave of Light
      • Fixed an issue that was causing enemies affected by Wave of Light to not always receive the full damage
• Witch Doctor
  • General
    • Base Mana regeneration increased from 20 per second to 45 per second
    • The spellcasting animations for the following skills have been modified to allow the effect to occur quicker and for the player to move sooner after casting: Acid Cloud, Corpse Spiders, Firebomb, Locust Swarm, Poison Dart, and Zombie Charger
  • Active Skills
    • Acid Cloud
      • Range increased from 45 yards to 50 yards
      • Now deals 115% weapon damage plus 150% weapon damage over 3 seconds (up from 100% weapon damage followed by 75% weapon damage over 3 seconds); also benefits Acid Rain
      • Skill Rune - Lob Blob Bomb
        • Now increases base damage of Acid Cloud to 115% weapon damage
        • Slime weapon damage increased from 25% to 50% per second
      • Skill Rune - Slow Burn
        • Now increases base damage of Acid Cloud to 115% weapon damage, and deals and additional 300% weapon damage over 6 seconds
      • Skill Rune - Kiss of Death
        • Cloud of acid weapon damage increased from 110% to 126%
        • Weapon damage done to enemies who remain in the affected area increased from 83% to 165%, and damage is now dealt over 3 seconds
      • Skill Rune - Corpse Bomb
        • Weapon damage increased from 200% to 230%
        • When casting Acid Cloud, your witch doctor will no longer attempt to walk closer to targets that are out of range
    • Corpse Spiders
      • Will now inherit +Critical Damage bonuses from the player
      • Can now proc Life on Hit for the player
      • Are aware of enemies from further away
      • Have increased speed when pursuing enemies
      • Skill Rune - Spider Queen
        • Changed from 16% weapon damage per second for 15 seconds to 630% weapon damage over 15 seconds
        • Tooltip has been updated to clarify that you may only have one Spider Queen active at a time
    • Firebats
      • Weapon damage increased from 150% to 180%
      • Skill Rune - Plague Bats
        • Maximum weapon damage increased from 225% to 270%
      • Skill Rune - Hungry Bats
        • Weapon damage increased from 280% to 350%
      • Skill Rune - Cloud of Bats
        • The damage of the bats will now increase by 20% (up from 10%) every second, up to a maximum of 100% additional damage (up from 50%)
    • Firebomb
      • Weapon damage increased from 85% to 110% ((this benefits all runes except Pyrogeist))
      • Skill Rune - Fire Pit
        • Changed from 8% weapon damage for 3 seconds to 36% weapon damage over 3 seconds
        • Proc coefficient reduced from 0.67 to 0.067
      • Skill Rune - Pyrogeist
        • Changed from 140% weapon damage over 3 seconds to 640% weapon damage over 6 seconds
        • Tooltip has been updated to clarify that only one column of flame can be active at a time
    • Gargantuan
      • Gargantuan survivability has been increased:
        • Maximum Life now scales with the player's Maximum Life
          • At level 60, the Gargantuan will receive an additional 50% of the player’s Maximum Life
        • The amount of damage a Gargantuan can take from a single hit is now capped. The cap scales with the player's level, and is further reduced by the player’s Armor and Resistance.
      • Weapon damage increased from 25% to 100%, but can no longer trigger procs
      • Skill Rune - Humongoid
        • Weapon damage increased from 32% to 130%
      • Skill Rune - Wrathful Protector
        • Weapon damage increased from 55% to 110%
      • Skill Rune – Bruiser
        • Weapon damage increased from 100% to 200%
    • Grasp of the Dead
      • Now does 320% weapon damage over 8 seconds
      • Skill Rune - Death is Life
        • Now has a 10% chance to produce health globe or summon a Zombie Dog
    • Horrify
      • Cooldown reduced from 20 seconds to 16 seconds
    • Plague of Toads
      • Mana cost reduced from 34 to 12
    • Poison Dart
      • Skill Rune - Spined Dart
        • Mana return on hit increased from 24 to 29
      • Skill Rune - Flaming Dart
        • Weapon damage increased from 160% to 180%
    • Spirit Barrage
      • Weapon damage increased from 190% to 230%
      • Skill Rune - Well of Souls
        • Weapon damage increased from 30% to 65% for each of the bonus projectiles
      • Skill Rune – Manitou
        • Changed from 28% weapon damage every second for 20 seconds (for a total of 560% weapon damage) to 1667% weapon damage over 20 seconds
        • Search radius for targets has been increased from 20 yards to 30 yards
        • Proc coefficient reduced from 0.5 to 0.125
        • No longer shows a buff icon
    • Spirit Walk
      • Skill Rune - Umbral Shock
        • Weapon damage of explosion increased from 85% to 310% but is no longer increased by attack speed
      • Skill Rune - Severance
        • Changed from 100% weapon damage per second to 450% weapon damage over 2 seconds
    • Soul Harvest
      • Skill Rune - Languish
        • Movement speed reduction increased from 60% to 80%
      • Skill Rune - Vengeful Spirit
        • Weapon damage increased from 70% to 230%
    • Summon Zombie Dogs
      • Zombie Dog survivability has been increased:
        • Now also receive 35% of the player’s Maximum Life
        • The amount of damage a Zombie Dog can take from a single hit is now capped. The cap scales with the player’s level, and is further reduced by the player’s Armor and Resistance.
      • Cooldown reduced from 60 seconds to 45 seconds
      • Skill Rune - Rabid Dogs
        • Proc coefficient has been reduced from 1.0 to 0.10
      • Skill Rune - Burning Dogs
        • Proc coefficient has been reduced from 1.0 to 0.05
    • Wall of Zombies
      • Now does 800% weapon damage over 5 seconds
    • Zombie Charger
      • Skill Rune - Leprous Zombie
        • Changed from 25% weapon damage for 3 seconds to 240% weapon damage over 3 seconds
      • Skill Rune - Wave of Zombies
        • Weapon damage increased from 72% to 115% per zombie
  • Passive Skills
    • Circle of Life
      • Chance to summon a Zombie Dog when an enemy dies increased from 5% to 30%
    • Grave Injustice
      • Mana and Life gain increased from 1% to 2% of their maximum values whenever a nearby enemy dies
    • Rush of Essence
      • Now returns a flat amount of Mana over 10 seconds (49 Mana at level 60)
    • Spirit Vessel
      • Spirit realm duration reduced from 3 seconds to 2 seconds
      • Heal increased from 10% to 15% of player’s maximum Life
      • While in the spirit realm, players can now walk through enemy monsters
    • Vision Quest
      • Vision Quest has been redesigned and now grants 30% increased Mana regeneration for 5 seconds after doing damage with Corpse Spiders, Firebomb, Plague of Toads, or Poison Dart
    • Tribal Rites
      • Now also benefits Gargantuan, Mass Confusion, and Summon Zombie Dogs
  • Bug Fixes
    • Corpse Spiders
      • Skill Rune - Leaping Spiders
        • Spiders will now always leap to their target as soon as it’s in range
• Wizard
  • Active Skills
    • Arcane Torrent
      • Arcane Power cost reduced from 20 to 16
      • Weapon damage increased from 175% to 210%
      • Skill Rune - Death Blossom
        • Projectiles are now less random
      • Skill Rune - Arcane Mines
        • Weapon damage increased from 150% to 180%
      • Skill Rune - Cascade
        • Weapon damage increased from 175% to 210%
    • Archon
      • Slow Time duration increased from 8 seconds to 15 seconds
      • Skill Rune - Arcane Destruction
        • Weapon damage increased from 450% to 1600%
    • Diamond Skin
      • Skill Rune - Mirror Skin
        • Amount of damage reflection increased from 50% to 100%
      • Skill Rune - Enduring Skin
        • Duration bonus increased from 8 seconds to 9 seconds
      • Skill Rune - Diamond Shards
        • Weapon damage increased from 155% to 210%
    • Electrocute
      • Weapon damage increased from 80% to 90%  (this also benefits Chain Lightning, Forked Lightning, and Surge of Power)
      • Skill Rune - Forked Lightning
        • Weapon damage increased from 46% to 55% per charged bolt
      • Skill Rune - Lightning Blast
        • Weapon damage increased from 80% to 86%
      • Skill Rune - Arc Lightning
        • Weapon damage increased from 80% to 115%
    • Energy Twister
      • Proc coefficient reduced from 0.25 to 0.125
    • Explosive Blast
      • Skill Rune - Time Bomb
        • Weapon damage increased from 293%  to 315%
    • Hydra
      • Skill Rune - Arcane Hydra
        • Weapon damage increased from 28% to 60% per Arcane Orb
      • Skill Rune - Lightning Hydra
        • Weapon damage increased from 34% to 64%
      • Skill Rune - Frost Hydra
        • Weapon damage increase from 31% to 36%
        • Cone width changed from 15 yards with a 60 degree spread to 35 yards with a 30 degree spread
      • Skill Rune - Mammoth Hydra
        • Weapon damage increased from 22%  to 67%
    • Ice Armor
      • Increased the likelihood that attackers will be Frozen rather than Chilled
      • Skill Rune - Crystallize
        • Armor bonus per stack increased from 15% to 30%
      • Skill Rune - Jagged Ice
        • Weapon damage as Cold increased from 100% to 130%
    • Meteor
      • Weapon damage increased from 200% + 60% over 3 seconds to 260% + 60% over 3 seconds
      • Skill Rune - Molten Impact
        • Weapon damage increased from 260% +78% over 3 seconds to 390% + 90% over 3 seconds
      • Skill Rune - Meteor Shower
        • Weapon damage increased from 80% to 104%  for each smaller Meteor
      • Skill Rune - Comet
        • Weapon damage of initial hit increased from 240% to 312%
    • Shock Pulse
      • Skill Rune - Fire Bolts
        • Weapon damage increased from 136% to 152%
      • Skill Rune - Lightning Affinity
        • Arcane Power restored per pulse increased from 2 to 3
    • Spectral Blade
      • Skill Rune - Impactful Blades
        • Now guarantees to Slow the movement speed of enemies by 80% for 1 second (rather than a 5% chance to cause Knockback and Slow the moment speed of enemies by 60% for 1 second)
      • Skill Rune - Siphoning Blades
        • Arcane Power restored per hit increased from 1 to 3
    • Teleport
      • Skill Rune - Calamity
        • Weapon damage increased from 75% to 265%
  • Bug Fixes
    • Cold Blooded
      • Tooltip has been updated to clarify that all damage is increased by 20% to Frozen or Chilled targets, not just Cold damage (functionality of the skill has not changed)

Crafting

• A repair tab has been added to the Blacksmith
• Bug Fixes
  • Gem-combine designs for Amethysts and Emeralds should no longer contain typos

Followers

• The last follower a player had active in a single-player game will now be restored automatically after leaving a multiplayer game
• The frequency of follower dialog has been reduced

Items

• All level 60- 62 damage affixes have had their Minimum and Maximum top-end damage values increased
  • Level 63 items will still roll the highest potential damage values in the game, but the damage difference between level 60-62 items and level 63 items just won’t be as dramatic as it was before
  • Note: This will only impact items created or dropped after patch 1.0.4
• Two-handed melee weapons have made more viable:
  • Two-handed melee weapons can now roll their own affixes for core stats as well as higher damage values (as compared to one-handed melee weapons)
    • Core stat values have been increased by approximately 70%
    • Note: This does not affect two-handed ranged weapons
  • Additional affix changes for two-handed melee weapons include:
    • + Crit Damage, Life on Hit, Life After Each Kill, and Life Steal values can now roll up to 200% 
    • Note: This does not affect two-handed ranged weapons
  • Note: This will only impact items created or dropped after patch 1.0.4
• All off-hand items (mojos, orbs, quivers, shields) can now roll Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, and Vitality in the same ranges as Armor and Weapons
  • Note: This will only affect off-hand items created or dropped after patch 1.0.4
• Off-hands can now roll Reduced Level Requirement
• Drop rate on quivers has been reduced
• +MaxFury and +MaxSpirit will no longer roll on ranged weapons
• Max Block amount on shields with an item level of 59 and higher has been changed so they all provide the same amount of Max Block
• Repair costs have been reduced by up to 25% for item levels between 53 and 63
• Weapon racks have had their weapon drop rate restored to 100%, though weapons are more likely be of Common quality (white or grey items)
• Destructible objects now have a chance to drop items again
• The text color of gems, potions, crafting pages and tomes dropped on the ground has been changed from white to light blue
• The maximum stack size of gems has been increased from 30 to 100
• The gem drop sound effect is now more noticeable
• Legendary Items
  • Significant changes have been made to Legendary items:
    • Custom proc effects have been added to over 50 Legendary items and Set item bonuses
    • All Legendary items will now roll with at least one of the following affixes to ensure that their DPS is viable: +Elemental Damage, +Attack Speed, +Critical Damage, +%damage, Has Sockets
    • Affix values on Legendary items are no longer demoted and will now roll at their maximum potential
    • Many lower level Legendary items have had their affix count increased to 6
    • Legendary items based on Uniques from previous Diablo games have received a tuning pass to make their stats more reflective of their ancestors
    • The chance for a Legendary item to drop that’s below an item level of 50 has been increased
    • Item level 63 Legendary items have been added to the game
    • Legendary Sets:
      • All item level 61 set pieces have been increased to item level 63 (excluding rings and amulets), and had their base item changed from late hell/early inferno to late inferno.
      • Class-specific sets are now guaranteed to have the class’s core stat on every item in the set
    • Summoned Creatures:
      • Creatures summoned by Legendary item procs should now follow the player or Follower with the item equipped
      • Creatures summoned by Legendary item procs should now have combat awareness similar to Followers
      • Creatures summoned by Legendary item procs should now their level determined by the Legendary item level
  • Please note that these changes will only apply to new Legendary items that drop or are created after patch 1.0.4. Legendary items which dropped or were created prior to patch 1.0.4 will remain unchanged (this also applies to items which have not been identified yet). To distinguish these items from one another, new Legendary items will have slightly different names and appearances from those dropped or created prior to 1.0.4. 
• Vendors
  • Squirt the Peddler has permanently moved from the Caldeum Bazaar up to the Hidden Camp, as she heard people liked buying Health Potions up there
• Bug Fixes
  • Legendary items (pre- and post-1.0.4) with the +Attack Speed affix should now work correctly
  • Items with +Chance to Stun on Hit now have the suffix “of Staggering” instead of “of Devastation”
  • Multiple chests that had a small chance of dropping loot into unreachable locations have been repositioned slightly to prevent this from happening
  • Fixed a bug where Normal chests found in Bastion keep were dropping items from too low of a treasure class (these chests will now drop the same class of items as other Normal chests throughout the game)
  • Fixed a bug that allowed players to see properties of unidentified items

Monsters

• Monsters across the game have had a pass to make their experience and loot rewards more proportional to the effort required to kill them
  • For example, Imps and Tormented Stingers grant less XP and drop less items, but Lacuni Warriors grant increased XP and drop more items
• Experience awarded by level 61-63 monsters has been increased by approximately 60%
• Normal monsters should now drop Magic (blue) items and Rare (yellow) items approximately 4 times more than before
• Bonus health granted to monsters in co-op games has been reduced to 75% per additional player for all difficulties:
  • Normal: (no change)
  • Nightmare: 85%è75%
  • Hell: 95% è75%
  • Inferno: 105% è 75%
• Monster damage and health and drop rates has been adjusted for Inferno as follows:
  • Normal monsters now have a greatly increased chance to drop Magic (blue) and Rare (yellow) items
  • Act I
    • Elite monster health reduced by 11%
  • Act II
    • Normal monster health increased by 4%
    • Elite monster health reduced by 8%
    • Overall damage done by all monsters reduced by 8%
  • Act III and Act IV
    • Normal monster health increased by 10%
    • Elite monster health reduced by 2.5%
    • Overall damage done by all monsters reduced by 15%
• Spine Hewer, Skeletal Reaper, Skull Cleaver, and Swift Skull Cleaver damage has been reduced by approximately 37%
• Sarkoth <hoarder of="" treasure=" has had his loot quality and health adjusted slightly</hoarder>
• Quill Fiends in the Dank Cellar will now drop less additional gold (but will still drop more than other Quill Fiends) and should now properly turn hostile when confronted by a player
• Blood Clan Ranged monsters should now run away less often and for shorter distances
• Moon Clan Ranged monsters should now run away for shorter distances
• Snakeman Casters now have a melee attack
• Snakeman Casters’ Electric Burst now has a max channeling duration of 7 seconds
• Rockworms should now burrow less frequently after unburrowing, and will unburrow more quickly after burrowing
• Succubus blood star projectiles can now be slowed
• Brickhouse monsters (e.g. Demonic Tremors) should now Arm Shields and enrage less often, and will no longer gain an increase in damage while enraged
• Possessed monsters can no longer spawn with the Illusionist affix
• Fast mummies (Betrayed, Accursed, and Reviled) can no longer spawn with the Illusionist affix
• Pets and Followers should now only take 10% damage from a Fast mummy’s Poison Death Cloud
• Heralds of Pestilence no longer attack pets and Followers
• The first and third levels of Leoric’s Dungeon now have a total of five Uniques that can be spawned
• Reduced the chance of a skeletal Rare pack to spawn in the Cemetery of the Forsaken from 50% to 20%
• The lone Champion Shaman in the Demonic Trebuchet is no longer considered a Champion
• The treasure goblin spawn has been removed from the Road to Alcarnus
• Champions and Rares
  • Champion and Rare monsters will no longer enrage after prolonged combat, and they will no longer heal to full health after not being engaged
  • Jailer can now no longer appear with Knockback, Nightmarish, or Vortex
  • Invulnerable Minions has been removed as a possible affix
  • Fire Chains damage has been reduced by 20%
  • Nightmarish monsters will now make players immune to Fear for 6 seconds after the Fear is cast on the player
  • Plagued, Frozen, and Mortar monsters will now do only 10% of their damage to pets and Followers
  • Shielding monsters will no longer shield if they are the last monster left in the area, and only one monster in a given pack can be shielded at a time
  • The spawn points of Arcane Enchanted beams have been adjusted slightly to be more spread out, and their damage has been reduced by approximately 30%
  • Champion and Rare Fallen Lunatics have been removed from both Zoltun Kulle dungeons
  • Swarm monsters now have a more pronounced Champion and Rare appearance
• Bug Fixes
  • Mortar monster projectiles should no longer be aimed within the monster’s dead zone
  • Waller monsters can no longer spawn walls on top of players
  • Plagued, Arcane Enchanted, and Electrified minions no longer have resistance to Poison, Arcane, or Lightning damage (respectively)
  • Dark Moon Shaman Champions and Rares now correctly show their affixes
  • Dark Moon Shaman’s Empower ability will now properly reduces all types of incoming damage
  • Oppressors’ Charge attack will no longer deal damage to players twice
  • Berserkers now have the proper “blue glow” of Champions
  • The Champion pack at the end of Kyr the Weaponsmith’s event “A Reputation Restored” will now drop loot and give experience
  • The common and Champion skeletons that spawn from the treasure chest during the zombie ambush event in Act I, Cathedral level 4 will now drop loot and give experience
  • The Goatman Ambush event in the Fields of Misery will now properly spawn a full pack of Champions (instead of just one Champion)
  • The Aspect of Terror will now drop at least one Magic (blue) item, and its clones will now only drop health globes
  • The Flying Molok can no longer turn invisible and become un-targetable
  • The Bloated Malachor’s damage has been normalized to be in line with the rest of his other monster variants
  • Killing Sardar’s illusions will no longer trigger quest completion for “Sardar’s Treasure: Kill Sardar”; the quest will now properly complete when Sardar is slain (this is because Sardar is no longer an Illusionist, and will now only spawn with Vampiric and Nightmarish affixes)
  • It should now be significantly easier to dodge Triune Berserker Power Hits
  • Damage over time spells will no longer prevent certain monsters from dropping health globes
  • A player who is killed by a monster’s Reflect Damage affix will now be able to release his or her corpse and be resurrected by other players
  • Fixed a bug that allowed monsters with multiple affix powers to sometimes to ignore the cooldown timers of those powers
  • Fixed a bug where several Unique monsters could not spawn in Act II – The Howling Plateau (this fix now allows players to finish the achievement “A Unique Collection”)

Quests

• Players will now receive full experience and gold rewards for completing quests for the first time in Nightmare, Hell, and Inferno difficulties
• Players will no longer receive a quest reward after opening the entrance to the Waterlogged Passage; instead, they will now receive the reward after completing the step “Kill Gavin the Thief” instead (which occurs slightly after)
• Bug Fixes
  • The Quest Select window will now always display the most recently completed quest or quest step, as well as all resumable steps leading up to that point
  •  “Trailing the Coven: Talk to Karyna” will now automatically update for players to “Trailing the Coven: Find the Khazra Staff” (even if they have not yet talked to Karyna) when triggering the Lost Wagon scene
    • This is to ensure that players are able to receive a quest reward when clicking on the wagon
  • Players no longer receive Town Portal as a reward during repeated completions of the quest "A Shattered Crown: Take the Skeleton King's crown from the Chancellor's Altar" and will now receive gold and experience
  • Players can no longer disrupt the rituals during "The Crumbling Tower: Explore the Lyceum," which used to prevent players from completing the event
  • Vendel the Armorsmith can no longer be killed by the environment during the event "The Scavenged Scabbard"
  • Skipping the cut-scene during the quest "A Royal Audience: Talk to Emperor Hakan II" as quickly as possible will no longer prevent the quest objective from being updated
  • The matchmaking cut-off point for the quest “The Light of Hope” has been adjusted slightly

User Interface

• The ability to drag-and-drop skills in Elective Mode will now only be enabled while the Skill window is open
• Resist values are now taken into consideration when calculating the item comparison “Protection” value
• When a player cancels out of a Trade window, any items that are under the player’s cursor will also be cancelled
• A two-second delay will now occur when clicking “Accept” in a Trade window if either player makes any changes to their offering
• Bug Fixes
  • Holding CTRL while mousing over an item on the ground that has socketed gems will no longer cause that item to appear unsocketed
  • Players will no longer get disconnected from the game if their Mouse Wheel is bound to the function “Close All Open Windows”

Mac

• Retina Displays are now fully supported
• Game resolutions which match Mac screen aspect ratios now offered
• Switching between Windowed and Fullscreen modes is now faster
• Added a “Help” menu so players can more quickly navigate to relevant support pages
• Added a menu item which allows players to copy system information to their Clipboard
• Added a menu item to reveal various games files and folders in Finder
• Bug Fixes
  • Selecting the default resolution settings in Video Options will now correctly reset the resolution
  • Changing the resolution settings while in Windowed (Fullscreen) mode will now properly change the resolution

Bug Fixes

• Level 60 characters will no longer receive a “+XP” message when looting a new lore journal
• Decreased the chance for multiple Sigil rooms in the Gardens of Hope (Tier 2) to spawn at once
• Fixed a bug that was causing some tiles in the Holy Sanctum not to spawn, preventing players from being able to access the room’s treasure chest

Auction House

• Bug Fixes
  • The "Bid" and "Buyout" buttons will now be correctly grayed-out in the confirmation window when attempting to purchase an item with insufficient gold

Bug Fixes

• General
  • Fixed a bug where leaving a heavily-populated General chat channel would prevent players from rejoining any General chat channel until they logged out and logged back in
  • Fixed several tooltip-related bugs that were occurring when viewing items with 2 or more sockets in the auction house and profile pages
  • Fixed a rare crash with tutorials on item pickup

Classes

• Witch Doctor
  • Bug Fixes
    • Zombie Charger
      • Skill Rune – Zombie Bears
        • Fixed a bug where Zombie Bears were unable to attack targets on slopes
        • Zombie Bears should no longer become stuck on objects with which they shouldn't have collision

Items

• General
  • Equipped items will now take "wear-and-tear" durability damage at half the previous rate
    • Please note that durability loss as the result of normal combat is different from the 10% durability loss characters will incur when they die. Equipped items have always suffered durability loss while fighting, and we are simply slowing the rate at which the loss occurs.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed a bug that was causing Unique monsters to not drop the appropriate amount of loot when slain
  • Fixed a bug with linking items with 3 gem sockets
  • It is no longer possible to create fake achievement links

Bug Fixes

• General
  • Fixed a bug that was causing the "Switch Hero" button to occasionally disappear after leaving a game while in town
  • Fixed several gold and leveling exploits
  • Fixed several game and service crashes (for Mac and PC)

General

• To prevent monsters from being unintentionally kited into town from other areas of the game, portals have been placed at both ends of the bridge from New Tristram to The Weeping Hollow. Towns have always been intended to be a safe haven from combat, and this change will help keep the denizens of New Tristram safe from the dangers that lurk beyond its walls.
• The rewards provided for replaying quests has been reduced
• The real-money auction house is now available for Chilean, Argentinian, and Brazilian currencies

Battle.net

• General
  • Friends will now sort alphabetically by name within the Friends List, first by Real ID and then by BattleTag
  • The Quick Join menu will now also sort alphabetically by name, first by Real ID and then by BattleTag
  • Chat settings and preferences will now be saved whenever you log out
  • Reporting another player using the Report > Spam option will now mute that player for the duration of your gaming session
• Bug Fixes
  • Using the /who command in a heavily populated chat channel should no longer cause the client to crash
  • The "Invite to Party" button should no longer become grayed-out if a player:
    • Declines a party invite
    • Requests a party invite and then declines it
    • Accepts a party invite, but then immediately leaves the party
  • The character screen should now always display the correct act and quest information
  • If Real ID has been disabled for a Battle.net account, attempting to add a Real ID friend in Diablo III will now prompt the player with the following error message: "Battle.net is unable to add friends because you have Real ID disabled."

Classes

• Barbarian
  • Active Skills
    • Ignore Pain
      • Skill Rune – Contempt for Weakness
        • The amount of damage reflected will now cap at the player's maximum Life
    • Overpower
      • Skill Rune – Crushing Advance
        • The amount of damage reflected will now cap at the player's maximum Life
        • The tooltip has been updated to represent that both melee and ranged damage are reflected
    • Weapon Throw
      • Tooltip now displays the correct duration for how long a target will be slowed: "Hurl a throwing weapon at any enemy for 100% weapon damage and Slow the movement of the enemy by 60% for 1.5 seconds." (The functionality of the skill has not changed.)
  • Passive Skills
    • Relentless
      • Now reduces the Fury cost of all skills by 75%, down from 100% (the 50% damage reduction remains unchanged)
• Demon Hunter
  • Active Skills
    • Cluster Arrow
      • Skill Rune - Dazzling Arrow
        • Tooltip now displays the correct type of weapon damage dealt by Dazzling Arrow: "Enemies hit by grenades have a 55% chance to be stunned for 2 seconds and changes the damage to Physical." (The functionality of the skill has not changed.)
    • Grenades
      • Skill Rune - Stun Grenades
        • Tooltip now displays the correct duration for how long a target will be stunned: "Hurl grenades that have a 25% chance to Stun enemies for 1.5 seconds." (The functionality of the skill has not changed.)
  • Bug Fixes
    • Caltrops
      • Skill Rune – Jagged Spikes
        • Effect will now only stack up to 10 times on a single target
    • Elemental Arrow
      • Skill Rune – Nether Tentacles
        • Tentacles will now only hit each target once
• Monk
  • General
    • Monks can now use two-handed axes, two-handed maces, and two-handed swords
  • Active Skills
    • Serenity
      • Skill Rune – Instant Karma
        • The amount of damage reflected will now cap at the player's maximum Life
    • Seven-Sided Strike
      • Skill Rune - Sustained Attack
        • Tooltip has been updated for clarity: "Reduces the cooldown of Seven-Sided Strike to 23 seconds." (The functionality of the skill has not changed.)
    • Mantra of Retribution
      • Damage will now cap based on the maximum Life of the target
  • Bug Fixes
    • Near Death Experience
      • Fatal damage absorbed by Serenity will no longer trigger Near Death Experience
• Witch Doctor
  • Active Skills
    • Summon Zombie Dogs
      • Skill Rune – Leeching Beasts
        • Tooltip has been updated for clarity: "Your Zombie Dogs heal 50% of the damage they deal as Life divided evenly between themselves and you." (The functionality of the skill has not changed.)
• Wizard
  • Active Skills
    • Diamond Skin
      • Skill Rune – Mirror Skin
        • The amount of damage reflected will now cap at the amount of damage absorbed by Diamond Skin
    • Magic Weapon
      • When activated, a buff icon will now appear that displays the amount of time remaining
    • Meteor
      • Skill Rune - Star Pact
        • Now deals damage as Arcane instead of Fire
    • Passive Skills
      • Paralysis
        • Tooltip now displays the correct duration for how long a target will be stunned: "Lightning damage dealt to enemies has up to a 8% chance to Stun the target for 1.5 seconds." (The functionality of the skill has not changed.)

Items

• General
  • + Attack Speed bonus values on weapons and armor have been reduced by 50%
    • This change does not apply to quivers
  • High-end items (items level 61-63) will now drop in all Acts of Inferno and Acts III and IV of Hell difficulty
    • The new approximate drop rates are as follows:
      • Hell - Act III and Act IV
        • iLvl 61: 9%
        • iLvl 62: 1.9%
        • iLvl 63: 0%
      • Inferno - Act I
        • iLvl 61: 17.7%
        • iLvl 62: 7.9%
        • iLvl 63: 2.0%
      • Inferno - Act II
        • iLvl 61: 18.6%
        • iLvl 62: 12.4%
        • iLvl 63: 4.1%
      • Inferno - Act III and Act IV
        • iLvl 61: 24.1%
        • iLvl 62: 16.1%
        • iLvl 63: 8.0%
    • Please see the Patch 1.0.3 Design Preview for more information and specific details
  • Repair costs have been increased for item levels between 53 and 63
  • Magic Find will no longer be considered when looting objects in the environment such as chests, barrels, vases, pots, and corpses
  • The item quality of all components needed to craft the Staff of Herding, as well as the Staff of Herding itself, have been changed from Common to Legendary (i.e. their item names will appear orange in color)
  • The Staff of Herding can no longer be salvaged or dropped
  • Crafted items that are dropped on the ground due to a player’s inventory being full can no longer be seen or picked up by other players
  • Unique monsters in Hell and Inferno difficulty are no longer guaranteed to drop two Magic items when slain
  • Weapon racks will no longer drop weapons 100% of the time
  • Destructible objects no longer have a chance to drop items, and will only have a small chance to drop gold when destroyed
• Weapons and Armor
  • "Balanced" superior items (i.e. Balanced Short Sword) will now grant a percent attack speed increase that only affects the weapon itself, rather than a flat increase to attacks per second that affected both equipped weapons when dual-wielding
  • Crowd Control Reduction from items and skills will now reduce the percentage value of Slow, Chill, and Attack Speed debuffs rather than reducing how long the debuff lasts
    • For example: previously, if you were debuffed by a 60% slow that lasted for 2 seconds while wearing gear that provides 20% Crowd Control Reduction, your movement speed would be reduced by 60%, but only for 1.6 seconds. Now, the same amount of Crowd Control Reduction will reduce the Slow effect to 48%, but the effect will remain for the full 2 second duration.
  • Manticore now has one additional bonus affix
• User Interface
  • Minimum damage and Maximum damage values will now display separately in an item's tooltip (i.e. "+2-4 Damage" will now display as "+2 Minimum Damage” and “+2 Maximum Damage")
  • Tooltips for items on the ground will now show comparison stats
  • Resist values will now be taken into effect when calculating the Protection comparison stat (the Protection value is an average protection estimate of all your resists)
  • When comparing a two-handed weapon against two currently-equipped one-handed weapons, the game will now simulate the removal of both one-handed weapons (instead of simply removing the main-hand weapon, which resulted in an inaccurate comparison)
  • When selling items to a vendor, the most recently sold items will now always display at the bottom of the Buyback tab
• Bug Fixes
  • Items level 50 and above will now display their item level in the tooltip
  • Damage Over Time (DoT) skills will now properly benefit from items with the +Critical Chance affix
  • Legendary items with the +Attack Speed bonus will now correctly provide a bonus to attack speed
    • Please note that this fix will only affect new Legendary drops. Existing Legendary items will be addressed in a future patch.
  • Players wearing +Life on Kill items should no longer receive a benefit from this affix when "killing" friendly monsters (e.g. when a witch doctor re-summons a Spider Queen while another Spider Queen is still active)
  • Fixed a bug with linking items with socketed gems in chat
  • Fixed a bug where vendors would occasionally not have any items for sale
  • Fixed a bug where selling more than 12 items to a vendor and then buying back 1 of those items could cause multiple items to disappear from the Buyback tab
  • Fixed a bug where swapping a 1-slot item (i.e. a ring) with 2-slot item (i.e. a weapon) in the second or third tab of a player’s stash would sometimes cause the 2-slot item to be filtered incorrectly to the first tab
  • Fixed a bug that was causing Collector's Edition dyes to sell for the same price regardless of stack size

Crafting

• General
  • The gold and material crafting costs for all items level 1-59 have been reduced by 50% to 75%
• Blacksmith
  • The gold cost to level the Blacksmith has been reduced by 50%
  • The number of Pages of Blacksmithing, Tomes of Blacksmithing, or Tomes of Secrets required to level the Blacksmith has been reduced
    • Base levels now require 1 page/tome, down from 5
    • Milestone levels now require 2 pages/tomes, down from 5
  • The number of Pages of Blacksmithing and Tomes of Blacksmithing required to craft items level 1-59 has been reduced
  • Items with 3 affixes no longer require Pages of Blacksmithing or Tomes of Blacksmithing to craft
  • The gold cost of crafting items with 4 affixes and 5 affixes (including items in Inferno difficulty) has been reduced
  • Weapon crafting costs have been reduced
  • The chance for level 60 items to produce Legendary crafting materials when salvaged has been reduced
• Jeweler
  • The gold and material cost to combine gems ranks 2-8 has been reduced
    • Combinations for these ranks now only require 2 gems, down from 3
      • The gold cost to combine each rank of gems is now as follows:
        • Rank 2 - Flawed: 10 gold (down from 500 gold)
        • Rank 3 - Regular: 25 gold (down from 750 gold)
        • Rank 4 - Flawless: 40 gold (down from 1250 gold)
        • Rank 5 - Perfect: 55 gold (down from 2000 gold)
        • Rank 6 - Radiant: 70 gold (down from 3500 gold)
        • Rank 7 - Square: 85 gold (down from 7500 gold)
        • Rank 8 - Flawless Square: 100 gold (down from 20,000 gold)

Followers

• General
  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed a bug where the maximum Life of your followers was being displayed as different values in different parts of the game UI
• Enchantress
  • Skills
    • Mass Control
      • Radius reduced from 15 yards to 8 yards
      • If Enchantress also has Reflect Missiles trained, Mass Control will no longer accidentally hex the player when both skills are activated
      • Skill will now correctly target enemies in all circumstances

Bosses

• General
  • Bosses have had their pathing improved
  • The quality of the item for the fourth stack of Nephalem Valor from bosses has been slightly reduced
• Skeleton King
  • Abilities
    • Will now summon Skeletal Archers in Hell and Inferno difficulties
• The Warden (mini-boss)
  • General
    • Now has Fast and Molten affixes, in addition to Jailer
    • In Inferno difficulty, the Warden will also gain the Desecrator affix
• Butcher
  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed an issue where the corner panel fires in the Chamber of Suffering were doing twice as much damage as intended
• Ghom
  • Abilities
    • Gas Cloud
      • Radius of Gas Cloud has been slightly reduced
      • Slowing effect has been removed
      • The amount of damage dealt by Gas Cloud when first entering the cloud has been reduced, but the amount of damage incurred for remaining in the cloud has been increased
      • In Inferno difficulty, Gas Clouds will last longer, spawn 2 at a time, and (after 4 minutes) spawn more quickly
• Maghda
  • Bug Fixes
    • Punish Dust projectiles can no longer be reflected
• Zoltun Kulle
  • General
    • Zoltun Kulle will now enrage in Inferno difficulty after 3 minutes, using his Ceiling Collapse ability more often and for much higher damage
  • Abilities
    • Ceiling Collapse
      • Can now be cast at a player from any range
    • Fireball
      • Fireball attack now moves slower
      • Can now be cast at a player from any range
    • Teleport
      • Will now Teleport and run away from the player less often
      • Will now occasionally Teleport to the player
• Belial
  • General
    • Belial will now enrage in Inferno difficulty after 3 minutes in his final phase, increasing the number of green pools dropped across the entire encounter platform
  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed a bug that was causing Belial to use his breath attack away from the player rather than towards the player under certain circumstances
• Siegebreaker
  • General
    • Overall damage has been reduced
    • No longer vulnerable to Confuse and Charm effects
    • Will now drop a health globe every 25% health mark (i.e. at 75%, 50%, and 25% health)
    • Now enrages after 4 minutes
    • In Inferno difficulty, Siegebreaker will now gain the Reflects Damage affix
• Cydaea
  • Abilities
    • Spiderlings
      • Spiderlings will now have an easier time hitting players, but their damage has been reduced by 20% to compensate
      • In Inferno difficulty, Spiderlings will now live longer, be more spread out, and (after 4 minutes) spawn more often
• Rakanoth
  • General
    • In Inferno difficulty, Rakanoth will now become much more aggressive after 3 minutes
• Izual
  • General
    • Health pool has been increased
    • The number of Oppressors that join the fight has been reduced from 4 to 2
    • Will no longer target Followers or Tyrael as frequently
  • Abilities
    • Base Attacks
      • Base attack damage has been lowered
      • No longer does Cold damage on top of base attacks
    • Charge
      • Charge damage has been reduced
      • Knockback has been removed
      • Will Charge slightly more often, but will only target players
    • Frozen Bombs
      • Frozen Bomb damage has been reduced
      • Bombs will now explode faster
      • Only 8 Bombs will now spawn around the player rather than 12
      • Bombs will spawn at Izual's feet less often
    • Frost Explosion
      • Frost Explosion damage has been reduced by 70%
      • Duration of freeze has been increased
      • Damage dealt to players while frozen will now break the effect
      • Players can now use defensive cooldown while frozen
      • Players can no longer avoid being frozen by doing high amounts of damage to Izual
  • Bug Fixes
    • Izual will no longer spawn twice if a player skips his introductory cut-scene
• Diablo
  • Bug Fixes
    • Damage Over Time (DoT) effects will now be properly cancelled when Diablo becomes invisible and casts Shadow Clones in Phase Two
    • Diablo "Stomp" ability is now correctly classified as a debuff instead of a buff
    • Fixed a bug that was causing pets to not attack Shadow Clones

Monsters

• General
  • Champions, Rares, and Uniques have had their pathing improved
  • Elite packs (Champion/Rare) now drop an additional item for players with 5 stacks of Nephalem Valor, which is guaranteed to be of Rare quality
  • Damage from monsters in Acts II, III, and IV in Inferno difficulty has been reduced
  • Colossal Golgor base damage has been reduced
  • Herald of Pestilence tentacle attack damage has been reduced
  • Soul Ripper and Soul Lasher damage has been reduced and both monsters will now run away less often
  • Wasps in Act II, Mage Constructs in Act II, and Winged Mollocks in Acts III and IV will now run away less
  • Succubus monsters will now run away less and for a shorter distance
  • The health pools of Woodwraiths in the Highlands now match the health pools of Woodwraiths in the Fields of Misery
  • Lacuni and Scavenger Rares and and Champions will now un-burrow when called by their allies
  • Bloodclan Warriors no longer knockback when buffed and attack slightly slower
  • Morlu no longer have the Invulnerable Minions, Health Link, or Fire Chains affixes
  • Plagued, Arcane Enchanted, and Electrified monsters no longer have resistance to Poison, Arcane, and Lightning damage (respectively)
  • Leaders of Invulnerable Minions packs have had their health pools reduced
  • Mortar monsters can now hurl projectiles farther, but their minimum range has also been increased by 100%
• Bug Fixes
  • Interrupting a monster attack before it lands will now properly trigger its cooldown
  • Treasure Goblins will now drop gold piles for all nearby players
  • Lacuni Warrior Rares and Champions will now reset their enrage timer correctly in Inferno difficulty
  • The Succubus "Blood Star" debuff will no longer affect the player if the damage from the projectile is dodged/blocked/etc
  • The damage from the Succubus “Blood Star” debuff will now scale based on the current cost of a player's skill, even if the cost is reduced by items or skill runes
  • Monsters with the Extra Health affix should no longer gain more health every time players leave and join the game
  • Monsters with the Reflects Damage affix will no longer reflect Follower damage back to the player
  • Monsters with the Health Link and Knockback affixes will no longer knockback friendly monsters
  • Fixed a bug that was causing some Elite monster packs in Inferno difficulty to not reset their enrage timers and heal to full health as intended
  • Fixed a bug that allowed players to avoid or delay the enrage timer reset on Elite monster packs in Inferno difficulty by running through a dungeon portal
  • Fixed a bug that was causing Champion Wallers to occasionally create walls at their location rather than the player's location
  • Fixed a bug where Sandwasp projectiles could sometimes become invisible

Bug Fixes

• General
  • The experience bar for characters at level cap on a Guest Pass account will now display 0/0 experience. If the account holder upgrades to the full game, their characters will be at 0/41000 experience towards the next level.
  • The speed of the animation that plays when resurrecting another player should no longer scale with your attack speed
  • Attempting to cast a skill while spamming the Town Portal hot key will now correctly interrupt the Town Portal cast and animation
  • Players who use Town Portal while in a tar pit will no longer keep the tar pit debuff after being teleported
  • It is no longer possible for players in Hell difficulty to skip to Inferno difficulty by creating and leaving Public Games
  • It is no longer possible to prevent character death in a single-player game by pausing the game in one game client and then logging into the same account from a different game client
  • Fixed a bug where The Lyceum in the Southern Highlands was not appearing
  • Fixed a bug where players could switch their offerings in the Trade window right before clicking "Accept" and, due to high latency, the game would not always be able to verify that both players were accepting the same offerings
  • Fixed a bug that was allowing players to temporarily pick up items that belonged to another account
  • Fixed a bug that was causing players to become stuck when using a banner to port to another player that was in an "un-walkable" location (i.e. to a barbarian in the middle of performing Leap)
  • Fixed a position desync bug (aka "rubberbanding") that could happen when some movement skills (Strafe, Whirlwind, Tempest Rush) ended because the player ran out of the appropriate resource
  • Fixed several issues where a player's character would get stuck or "rubberband" while moving if their movement speed was slowed in any way
  • Several performance improvements have been made to both the PC and Mac client
• Auction House
  • Item tooltips in the auction house will now correctly reflect stat bonuses provided by socketed gems
  • Items with class-specific affixes should now display the class restriction properly
  • It should no longer be possible for players to purchase a stack of items so large that it cannot be sent to their stash
  • The data displayed in each auction house tab should now properly reset when logging out

General

• If the authentication service is busy, the login checkbox will now wait at "Authenticating Credentials" until a player's login attempt can be processed. As a result, players should no longer encounter Error 37 when logging in.
• Achievements have been granted to players who previously completed their objectives, but were not correctly awarded completion credit.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed several crashes which occurred when clicking on player-generated item links in the game client

General

• When logging into Diablo III, the "Cancel" button which appears in the login checkbox will now be grayed out for 30 seconds after a Battle.net account name and password are entered. This is to reduce server load during the login process.

Auction House

• Damaged items can now be sold on the auction house
  • Once sold, damaged items will be repaired automatically when moved from the purchasing player's Completed tab to their stash
  • Please note that unsold damage items will not be automatically repaired when returned to the seller's stash
• Description messages for several auction house-related errors have been added

General

• Tooltips for the following class abilities have been updated to reflect changes made in patch 1.0.2[1] and previous hotfixes[2]:
  • Demon Hunter
    • Smoke Screen (Skill Rune – Lingering Fog)
  • Monk
    • Fists of Thunder (Skill Rune – Quickening)
    • Mantra of Healing (Skill Rune – Boon of Inspiration)
  • Wizard
    • Energy Armor (Skill Rune – Force Armor)
• Nigel Cutthroat has recently fallen on hard times and will now drop lower quality items when slain
• Gold and quest experience rewards for replaying "Heart of Sin: Get the Soul of Azmodan" have been reduced
• Gold and quest experience rewards for replaying "Heart of Sin: Go to the Keep" have been removed

Auction House

• The maximum duration for posted auctions has been reduced from 48 hours to 36 hours

Classes

• Monk
  • Active Skills
    • Serenity
      • Skill Rune - Tranquility
        • Duration of immunity granted to nearby allies from crowd control effects reduced from 2 seconds to 1 second

Bug Fixes

For a full list of documented game and service bugs, please review the Known Issues sticky located in the Bug Report forum.

• General
  • Players should no longer receive an "Error 14009" when logging in
  • The "Select a Hero" menu will now also display the difficulty level for each character
  • Several speed improvements have been made to the streaming downloader
• Achievements
  • All players in a party should now receive "Till Death Do Us Part" even if they don’t have Haedrig Eamon as their active follower
• Acts
  • Act IV
    • Witch Doctors should no longer receive an error if they kill a Shadow Clone with a Damage-Over-Time (DoT) skill after it's launched a Firebomb but before it's reached its target
• Auction House
  • The auction log in the Completed tab will now display a player's activity (bids, buyouts, sales, etc) in the proper order
  • When placing a new bid over a previous bid on the same auction, players will now be provided with the correct warning message: "Raising your maximum bid on an Auction you are already winning raises your current bid to just above your previous maximum bid. Are you sure you want to continue?"
  • Players will now receive an error message if they attempt to purchase an item after the 50 item limit has been reached in the Completed tab
  • The "Physical Damage" Preferred Stats option for rings has been renamed to "Bonus Minimum Physical Damage"
  • The "All Damage" Preferred Stats option for weapons and armor has been removed and replaced with bonuses of specific damage types
  • Items which have been purchased from a vendor and equipped by the player can now be sold on the Auction House
  • Listing items on the Auction House from a different character than the one currently selected should no longer cause item display issues
• Battle.net
  • The public chat list will now sort alphabetically
• Classes
  • Witch Doctor
    • Spirit Vessel (Passive) no longer clears debuffs when using waypoints or changing equipment

• Retail client released

• Monsters will no longer spawn with 10%-15% of their health missing
• Players who pre-purchase the Heart of the Swarm Digital Deluxe Edition will now properly receive the Blade Wings digital item on both Normal and Hardcore characters

• Goldskin's "100% Extra Gold from Monsters" affix will no longer affect monsters that are not intended to drop any loot
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused Sokahr the Keywarden to become stuck at 1 point of health
• Fixed an issue that caused the Butcher to go idle when stunned after performing his Charge attack during "The Imprisoned Angel: Kill the Butcher"
• Fixed an issue that allowed some players to continue to dual-wield two-handed weapons under extremely rare circumstances
• Fixed an issue that caused many players to receive an “Error 3006” when reaching the Retrieving Heroes step during login
  • Please note that we've only resolved one cause for this error, and that it may still occur in some situations
• Fixed a crash that could occur when gold dropped in bad locations
• Fixed a crash that could occur when the game loaded the wrong zone (based on incorrect information about the player's location) and then attempted to clear that zone

• The scaling bonus to monster damage in Inferno difficulty has been reduced by approximately 25% for all Monster Power levels
  • For more information, please click here
• The following changes have been made to Xah'rith the Keywarden:
  • He can no longer spawn with the Illusionist or Fast affix
  • The damage dealt by a number of his abilities has been reduced
  • The movement speed reduction applied by his Cold attacks has been reduced
  • His size has been slightly reduced

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a server crash that could occur if a player transitioned between Acts while a "goatman" monster was drumming

• Fixed a bug with the Reflects Damage monster affix that caused it to generate errors and deal no damage when triggered by a pet
• Fixed a crash that could occur when Arcane Enchanted monsters spawned their arcane beams in locations outside of the game world
• Fixed a crash that could occur when "uber" Skeleton King (in the Realm of Discord) or "uber" Rakanoth (in the Realm of Chaos) teleported outside of the game world
• Fixed a crash that could occur when "uber" Siege Breaker (in the Realm of Turmoil) used his Roar attack while holding a player in mid-air

• Made further improvements to help reduce the occurrence of rubberbanding and desync issues when using movement-based abilities such as Furious Charge, Whirlwind, Tempest Rush, and Vault
• Fixed a crash that could sometimes occur when interacting with guards or fighting guards that turn into monsters

• Fixed several cases of "rubberbanding" that could sometimes occur while playing under extremely high latency, when a character changed direction or movement speed, or when a character used certain movement-based abilities (like Tempest Rush or Whirlwind)
• Fixed several game and service crashes

• Fixed a bug that allowed wizards to become permanently invulnerable
• Fixed a health regeneration bug that occasionally affected barbarians when using Furious Charge

• Fixed a bug that allowed players to earn additional stacks of Nephalem Valor or guaranteed item drops by killing multiple monsters simultaneously from the same Champion or Rare pack
• Fixed even more game and service crashes

• General
  • Fixed a bug that allowed players to temporarily increase their attack speed or double-cast a skill by clicking repeatedly on Town Portal while performing an ability
  • Identifying an item will no longer allow players to circumvent a skill’s attack animation cooldown
  • Fixed some additional (but rare) game crashes
• Auction House
  • Fixed a bug that was causing stacks of commodities in a player’s stash to update incorrectly if the items being sent from the Completed Tab were purchased from multiple different sellers

• General
  • The drop rates for high-end items (items level 61-63) have been increased for Acts III and IV of Hell difficulty and Acts I – IV of Inferno difficulty
    • The new approximate drop rates are as follows:
      • Hell – Act III and Act IV
        • iLvl 61: 9% to 13.9%
        • iLvl 62: 1.9% to 3.45%
        • iLvl 63: 0% (no change)
      • Inferno – Act I
        • iLvl 61: 17.7% to 23.9%
        • iLvl 62: 7.9% to 12.6%
        • iLvl 63: 2.0% to 4.8%
      • Inferno – Act II
        • iLvl 61: 18.6% to 23.3%
        • iLvl 62: 12.4% to 18.6%
        • iLvl 63: 4.1% to 9.3%
      • Inferno – Act III and Act IV
        • iLvl 61: 24.1% to 27.1%
        • iLvl 62: 16.1% to 21.7%
        • iLvl 63: 8.0% to 16.3%
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed a bug with several items that would allow those items to block pathing when dropped on the ground

Bosses

• Bosses are now guaranteed to drop at least 1 Rare item for players with 4 stacks of Nephalem Valor and at least 2 Rare items for players with 5 stacks of Nephalem Valor

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash that could sometimes occur when a player was interacting with environment objects (e.g. opening chests or clicking on a lectern)

• Players can no longer gain achievements they have not earned by joining a Public Game with someone who has earned those achievements
• Monks can no longer infinitely stack the damage buff from Combination Strike by changing weapons.

• In cooperative games, monster damage will no longer increase when additional players join the game. Please note that monster health will still scale based on the number of players in a party.

Bug Fixes

• Tyrael no longer has collision when he is your active follower
• Pots of ashes in Act I and vases in Act IV will now drop less gold when destroyed
• Fixed a bug where players could turn in the same quest repeatedly and always receive rewards as though they were completing the quest for the first time

• Mehtan the Necromancer and his skeletons can no longer be used to kill other monsters which have been kited to their location before or after the "Restless Sands" event

• Players will now receive an error message when attempting to remove a gem from an item with no sockets (rather than disconnecting)
• Players will now properly have their casting interrupted when attacked while performing resurrect on a fallen group member
• Resolved over 30 game and service crashes affecting players

Classes Demon Hunter Active Skills:

• Smoke Screen
  • Duration reduced from 2 seconds to 1 second (tooltip will still show 2 seconds)
• Skill Rune - Lingering Fog
  • Now increases the duration of Smoke Screen to 1.5 seconds (tooltip will still show 3 seconds)

Monk Active Skills:

• Fists of Thunder
• Skill Rune - Quickening
  • Fixed an issue that was causing spirit regeneration to incorrectly trigger off critical hits from other sources, such as Sweeping Wind
• Mantra of Healing
  • Mantra of Healing will now correctly provide only two times the base healing effect for the first 3 seconds after activation, down from four times the base healing effect (tooltip will still show the old value)
• Skill Rune - Boon of Protection
  • A maximum absorption amount has been set to 1000 Life. This skill will be redesigned in an upcoming patch.

Wizard Active Skills

• Arcane Torrent:
• Skill Rune - Cascade
  • Fixed an issue that was causing Arcane Torrent to fire 3 new missiles per kill instead of only 1 new missile per kill
  • Number of simultaneously missiles generated from this rune will now cap at 10 missiles
• Energy Armor
• Skill Rune - Force Armor
  • Amount of damage absorbed from a single attack will now cap at 100% of a player’s maximum Life

Items

• The chest spawn in the Town Cellar in Alcanus has been changed from a 100% chance to spawn a Resplendant chest to a 50% chance to spawn a Normal chest
• Players can no longer dual-wield two-handed weapons

Monk Active Skills:

• Serenity
• Skill Rune - Tranquility
  • Duration of immunity granted to nearby allies from crowd control effects reduced from 2 seconds to 1 second

Encounters

• Players will no longer remain invulnerable to attacks after defeating Diablo.
• Players can no longer become stuck during Diablo’s Shadow Grab ability if a player blinds Diablo while Shadow Grab is being cast.

Items

• Equipping a shield on a follower as a demon hunter will no longer disconnect you from the game.

Quests

Act I

• Players can now always interact with Karyna during the quest and quest step "Trailing the Coven : Talk to Karyna" when they resume from a save.

Act II

• The Enchantress will now always appear during the quest and quest step "Shadows in the Desert : Disrupt the Hidden Conclave."

Act IV

• Tyrael will now always be present for the in-game cutscene during the quest and quest step "Prime Evil : Climb to the Pinnacle of Heaven in the Silver Spire."